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Storm Jorge : February 29th

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  • #502
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Pangea wrote: »
    Latest Met Éireann forecast ón RTÉ One showing the old times for the Red warning, further evidence of the disconnect between their website and their tv forecasts. You would think for something as important as a red warning that they would have the most up to date times before going live.

    Must be like trying to pin a butterfly down though


  • #503
    GreyRock Lass
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭GreyRock Lass


    Winds have certainly picked up here, sun is long gone, squall has just passed..power gone a few km's up the road.....red warning about to kick in...interesting afternoon ahead!


  • #504
    Whiplashy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,104 ✭✭✭Whiplashy


    Just heard about the alerts. I'm on holiday and due to get into Dublin at around 10 tonight from the canaries. Anyone know if flights are likely to be affected? I know Dublin will only be on yellow by then but wondering about knock on effects from the earlier orange.


  • #505
    redsteveireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭redsteveireland


    redsteveireland wrote: »
    Athenry, bit of a breeze so far.

    Slight increase after a swift hail shower.


  • #506
    Graces7
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    M.T. Cranium wrote: »
    Looks like the centre went directly over K4 around 09z and is now around 55.5N 11.5W. Pressure dropped as low as 951.4 mbs at that time and has now risen slightly to 951.8. Winds went quite slack then picked up briskly northwest 21 kts at 10z.

    Satellite imagery shows the core of strong winds about to slam into west coast, elements are racing east at 80-100 knots (doesn't mean there are winds of that strength in the lowest 1-2 kms).

    Expect Mace Head to be well into 70s by 11z and low to mid 80s (knots) 12z and 13z.

    Noticably a little brighter here and not quite as violent. Has been truly awesome!


  • #507
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    sentient_6 wrote: »
    My east Galway is flat calm. Take it easy with the drama.




    Great contribution.Big county is Galway.maybe try going outside and save the attitude like a good lad


  • #508
    Pretzill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,696 ✭✭✭Pretzill


    Winds have picked up considerably here. We had some snowfall earlier but the wind is higher than I expected this early.

    South Sligo
    90m asl


  • #509
    JCX BXC
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    Whiplashy wrote: »
    Just heard about the alerts. I'm on holiday and due to get into Dublin at around 10 tonight from the canaries. Anyone know if flights are likely to be affected? I know Dublin will only be on yellow by then but wondering about knock on effects from the earlier orange.

    As they're knock on effects, nobody here can possibly predict them. It's a game of wait and see, no magic psychic available!


  • #510
    Oneiric 3
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    Always liked this song and I think Graces7 might appreciate it too.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSFGK9HlEto


    "My island home is waiting for me..."

    New Moon



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  • #511
    Snow Garden
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    Winds have certainly picked up in west Galway. Gusty. Not much rain.


  • #512
    Gaoth Laidir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    Satellite-derived mean surface winds at 03:57 this morning. Core of 64+ knots (underestimated), which should be coming ashore along the midwest coast in the next couple of hours. Airport warning out for Shannon of 60-70 knots up to midday.

    EINN AD WRNG 03 VALID 290800/291600 WIND SFC SW 20-25KT MAX 40-45 BECMG 2910/2912 W 35-40KT MAX 60-70 FCST=

    504199.png


  • #513
    redsteveireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭redsteveireland


    Now you're talking, first meaty gusts, shaking the car around the place and making an awful racket in the chimney, there'll be no fire lit today.


  • #514
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    Oneiric 3 wrote: »
    Closing in.

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    Storms are beautiful.


  • #515
    aido76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 614 ✭✭✭aido76


    ESB power outages starting to stack up already.........
    https://www.esb.ie/esb-networks/powercheck/index.html


  • #516
    endainoz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,138 ✭✭✭endainoz


    North Clare has gotten wild. First proper storm we have had in a while.


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  • #517
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,354 ✭✭✭naughto


    Power outage in Newport with 2,935 properties affected. ESB Networks seeking to restore supply asap.


  • #518
    Pangea
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    Graces7 wrote: »
    Must be like trying to pin a butterfly down though

    Thats not the point I was making, they updated their times for the red warning on their website, but the tv still had the red warning for 1 pm to 4pm.
    Perhaps the forecast was pre recorded?


  • #519
    Comhrá
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,817 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    Windy now in Limerick City, but nothing out of the ordinary just yet.... totally overcast now and the sky has a real mean look to it. Windchill is very evident. 4.0c atm.


  • #520
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    https://www.severe-weather.eu/mcd/sting-jet-bomb-cyclone-rapid-jorge-mk/

    sting jet.


  • #521
    morgana
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    North Cork near Mallow still sunny but wind picking up somewhat


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  • #522
    Graces7
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    After a brief lull, back to squalls. New feature that there is short pause after each then the next one crashes in. Dark again too.

    Lit the fire earlier and it is grand. Loves this wind direction.


  • #523
    Wombatman
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    Some solid gusts hitting the house south of Athenry. Might get up and get breakfast in case the power goes.


  • #524
    Itssoeasy
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    Very windy in cork city with snow blowing around kind.


  • #525
    Pretzill
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    Pangea wrote: »
    Thats not the point I was making, they updated their times for the red warning on their website, but the tv still had the red warning for 1 pm to 4pm.
    Perhaps the forecast was pre recorded?

    The website and the app from Met Eireann are reporting different times (updated on the website) maybe that has something to do with it?


  • #526
    Gaoth Laidir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    Dubious gusts from the WT1 buoy off the Belmullet coast. Gusting to 94 knots, however I've noticed it always seems to report unrealistically high gusts in every system. But here's the chart for the record.

    http://cilpublic.cil.ie/MetOcean/MetOcean.aspx


    504203.png


  • #527
    nthclare
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    My phormiums are horizontal in the garden and the contorted Hazel seems to be loving it too.

    Im in two minds now as to whether or not I should do my usual storm tour from Ballyvaughan to Doolin taking video clips and photos of waves etc

    I always stand well back.

    Not many trees on those roads


  • #528
    aido76
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    very gusty here now.....


  • #529
    endainoz
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    Station at Clahane just outside Liscannor Co. Clare shows winds still rising.


  • #530
    Faoilean mara
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    Very windy here for the past while (offshore Galway) and sea starting to get up. Not a spring tide but running quite high, could be interesting


  • #531
    Snow Garden
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    Galway max gusts at 10am
    Mace Head = 130 km/h
    Athenry = 76 km/h

    Less then 100km between them.


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  • #532
    Hooter23
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    Gone up a notch in Galway proper stormy now


  • #533
    Gaoth Laidir
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    Winds | Pressures at 11 am. Mace Head down slightly.

    Mace Head | 240 49 gust 68 kt | 965
    Newport | 220 32 guts 52 kt | 963
    Belmullet | 230 34 gust 50 kt | 959
    Sherkin Island | 250 38 gust 54 kt | 979
    Shannon Airport | 210 25 gust 39 kt | 973

    Finnis Buoy | 220 19 gust 60 kt | ---

    https://twitter.com/FinnisBuoy/status/1233707914268946433


  • #534
    irish1967
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    Donegal Town 11am.
    Medium snow. Temp 1.2c. Wind picking up.


  • #535
    Kutebride
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    Left Meath 0830. Sunglasses all the way to Athlone. Sleet all the way after that to NE Galway. All indoors now rain pelting off the windows. Hearing most of Galway City closing shop.


  • #536
    Snow Garden
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    Kutebride wrote: »
    Left Meath 0830. Sunglasses all the way to Athlone. Sleet all the way after that to NE Galway. All indoors now rain pelting off the windows. Hearing most of Galway City closing shop.

    A lot of shops closing at noon in Galway.


  • #537
    Sundew
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    Just went outside about 10 mins ago to top up the birds feeding station, and a gust of wind came out of nowhere. It caught me unawares and
    I was lucky not to be knocked over. Sth gal


  • #538
    Gaoth Laidir
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    I thnk overall Jorge has peaked in winds just offshore, as all information is hinting at a slight downgrade in windspeeds compared to what we should be getting. The 00Z ECM 100-metre windchart shows the strongest core at 09Z rather than just onshore at 12Z, a downgrade on yesterday's forecast. Current observations are a little lower than expected too. We'll see what happens in the next hour, but for me it peaked a little earlier than forecast.


  • #539
    torres9kop
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    Wind starting to pick up on Sandymount strand. Angry looking sea. The dog has a worried look on his face


  • #540
    Snow Garden
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    Has calmed down significantly in west Galway. I think this one might pass quite quickly. Similar to Ali.


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  • #541
    nthclare
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    Snow Garden wrote: »
    Has calmed down significantly in west Galway. I think this one might pass quite quickly. Similar to Ali.

    Hopefully


  • #542
    Oneiric 3
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    No one holding onto the lamp posts for dear life in Shop street just yet.

    https://www.webcamtaxi.com/en/ireland/galway/high-street-cam.html

    New Moon



  • #543
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    Snow Garden wrote: »
    Galway max gusts at 10am
    Mace Head = 130 km/h
    Athenry = 76 km/h

    Less then 100km between them.

    Highlights the nonsensical catch-all approach to warnings. Stop applying them to entire counties and define the real area of strongest winds. Needlessly unsettling people with hyperbole.


  • #544
    Oneiric 3
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    Gaoth Laidir wrote: »
    I thnk overall Jorge has peaked in winds just offshore, as all information is hinting at a slight downgrade in windspeeds compared to what we should be getting. The 00Z ECM 100-metre windchart shows the strongest core at 09Z rather than just onshore at 12Z, a downgrade on yesterday's forecast. Current observations are a little lower than expected too. We'll see what happens in the next hour, but for me it peaked a little earlier than forecast.

    What a shocker...

    New Moon



  • #545
    Galwayguy35
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    If any idiot goes swimming at Salthill during this like they did for previous storms for their few mins of fame they should be left to their own devices instead of wasting the time of the emergency services.


  • #546
    jimbobaloobob
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    Snow Garden wrote: »
    Has calmed down significantly in west Galway. I think this one might pass quite quickly. Similar to Ali.

    Not calm in west galway where I am.


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  • #547
    Oneiric 3
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    In that wind forecast map I posted earlier on, it shows that something of a 'lull' was forecast for west Galway for around this time but with winds picking up again during the afternoon as the low swings further east. We'll see.

    New Moon



  • #548
    Gaoth Laidir
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    11 am TAFs out now have lower speeds, especially for Shannon. Max 50 knots up to 4 pm.

    Dublin max 53 knots from 2 - 5 pm.
    Casement max 60 knots from 2 -5 pm.
    Cork max 52 knots from 2 - 6 pm
    Knock max 60 knots from 2 - 8 pm.


  • #549
    Snow Garden
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    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    Not calm in west galway where I am.

    Yeah it was a 5 min break I think. Started up again with some sleet too. Was definitely worse earlier.


  • #550
    JCX BXC
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    The 11am TAF's are out.

    Shannon airport is bizarrely forecasting a max of 50kts? (Was 64kts yesterday evening)
    Cork max of 52kts
    Knock max of 60kts
    Dublin max of 54kts


  • #551
    anacc
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    Dead calm and sunny with a lovely blue sky here on the south coast of Cork. Had quite a few snow flurries this morning as it’s quite cold but the snow didn’t stick.


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